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Monday, June 22, 2009

Why Aren't The Rabbis Speaking Out?

Hat Tip IMRA

Sundry Jews and rabbis of all stripes and adjectives should be shouting out their protests.


Mufti of Jerusalem says Temple Mount area only for Muslims and non-Muslims should not interfere
Mufti of Jerusalem and the Whole Palestine Calls for saving Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque

  • Judaism predates Islam.
  • Only Judaism has Jerusalem as its holiest city.
  • Only Judaism has the Temple Mount as its holiest spot.
  • Only in Judaism is Jerusalem central to the religion.

Why the silence?

5 comments:

Shiloh said...

Is it not obvious? The Tanach speaks of this exact thing, faithless shephards!!! But, we cannot see the forest for the trees today, and continually follow, being the utmost critical of those who refuse to follow blindly. As only the gate keepers know best, and those they have brainwashed.

Keli Ata said...

I know the guestion was rhetorical but--cowardice and the reverse of mass hysteria, mass apathy.

And indeed, faithful shepards. The rabbis no longer truly fear Hashem. Where's the awe and fear if they are silent about this?

I'd suggest they read out loud Tehillim 50 as I did about a year and a half ago around Yom Kippur. I had a dream that night after reciting it. It's an extremely powerful prayer, especially when said aloud.

Since that dream was so vivid I have written about it often. In a nutshell, I survive a terrible dust storm (in Buffalo, snow capital) because of something I read in the bible about Moshe walking through a dark cloud to where Hashem was.

In the dream someone tells me to "flee to Jerusalem and--." At that point the phone rang and I woke up so I never knew what I was supposed to flee to Jerusalem and do.

In the dream I do get to Jerusalem after that storm and all I can remember is being near the Kotel and seeing some sort of clear plexiglass type tunnel structure. Dust is on top of the roof of the tunnel but no dust gets inside.

No idea if there actually is a tunnel like this one at the Kotel but in my dream there was.


Anyway, my point in going OT was to say that these rabbis and others really need to recite Tehillim 50 out loud and be scared by it enough to have a nightmare about G-d coming out of Jerusalem.

You might want to post that psalm, too. Very very powerful IMO. People need to recite that as if it is Hashem talking to them personally.

Other psalms you have the sense of King David speaking. Tehillim 50 is different. You hear Hashem.

Keli Ata said...

oops, I mean people need to recite it and hear it as if it is Hashem speaking to them.

Batya said...

Shiloh, exactly! Nothing's new.

Keli, wow!

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